Iraq (2004) | The War on Iraq Heralded a Positive New Direction for American Foreign Policy

We should remember how agonizing the post–Cold War period was in its uncertainty. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the fall of Saddam [Hussein’s] statues in 2003, a pall of ambiguity and indecision hung over the international political order. Yes, the United States was the world’s sole remaining superpower, blessed with unprecedented wealth, military power, and a set of political principles based upon universal, individual political rights. It also had a uniquely intoxicating mix of “soft power”—spanning from the low culture of popular music to the high culture...

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